The International Space Station has been flying over Houston this week, putting on a show during the early morning and evening hours. On Saturday night Houston photographer Ira B. Wise captured this awesome shot of the station above the Sam Houston statue in Hermann Park. There’s one more opportunity to see the station, on Monday […]
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Neighborhoods built around single-family housing are ecologically unsustainable in a world increasingly challenged by climate change. So, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray was right to seek more density in those neighborhoods. Compromising single-family zones to allow more multi-family housing (however misjudged or inaccurately the idea was portrayed in the media) is the future of how we will […]
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Here’s the problem with those bright spots on Ceres: They are not alien signals or artificial lights, so in that environment they’re supposed to be ice or salt (or something like salt) reflecting sunlight. They don’t show up when not on the sunny side of life, but they also appear to be accompanied by vapors […]
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Here is your Seattle spring and summer in a handy graphic created by the FiveThirtyEightScience site: We’ve been talking about it being hot around here and have more heat on the way … though more within that normal range. Here’s what the science site says: These charts (follow the link for more cities) show the […]
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NASA released a few new photos of dwarf planet Pluto on Friday, including a “farewell” shot from behind, showing a thin atmosphere illuminated by the distant sun: Here’s some of what the space agency had to say about the latest revelations: Flowing ice and a surprising extended haze are among the newest discoveries from NASA’s […]
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Scientists with the New Horizons mission have now downloaded about 5 percent of the data collected by the spacecraft during its Pluto flyby 10 days ago. In a news conference today they discussed some of these stunning findings. Here are three of the biggest showstoppers. 1. Higher resolution of true color Pluto image. Better images are […]
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A study published last week in the journal Science has found the likely culprit in the disappearance of bumblebee colonies across the northern hemisphere. The bumblebee decline is a phenomenon that mirrors the decline of honeybees in recent years but is one that may have even more foreboding ecological implications. In a world where species ranging from sea turtles […]
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